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Investment managers embracing AI: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... significant potential for value creation in fixed income. "In the fixed income arena, AI may be used to support 'bottom up' credit analysis of corporate bond issuers, similar to how it would be deployed to support and expand equity analysis," Mercer ...

HMC Capital acquires asset manager

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... consistent with its strategy to establish new growth platforms in digital infrastructure, energy transition and private credit. The company said StratCap had an existing base of fee-paying assets under management across around 3400 investors, a deep ...

Tranche one of advice reforms hits parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
... provides personal advice to a retail client about a life risk insurance product, general insurance product or consumer credit insurance and receives a commission in connection with the issue or sale of that product must obtain the client's informed ...

Threats outside the Australian financial system build: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... experienced by domestic borrowers, and if this strains the balance sheets of financial institutions, it could limit access to credit in the Australian economy. Among the global risks, a further decline in the Chinese property sector could interact with ...

T. Rowe Price launches bond fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... Hall said over many years, much of the return from bond markets has been made by steadily falling yields and tightening credit spreads. "However, this benign investment environment was upended in 2022 as the US Fed, Reserve Bank of Australia and other ...

ANZ to pay $57.5m to settle class action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... against it by Phi Finney McDonald in 2021. The class action related to certain interest charged on specific ANZ personal credit cards in the period from 1 July 2010 to 1 January 2019. As part of the settlement, ANZ will pay $57.5 million, which is covered ...

Institutional investors shift gears amid 'new market regime'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... with active managers who have robust experience" sourcing the most attractive opportunities. The second theme was private credit and private equity being prioritised as well as growing allocations to alternatives. Over the next five years, 59% of investors ...

Investors being influenced by the 'Powell pivot'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... 2023 made the strategic shift a more attractive option for investors looking to capitalise on higher yields while reducing credit risk. "Half of all fixed income searches by bfinance clients in 2023 targeted investment grade strategies, up from 13% the ...

Inaugural CSLR levy slugs advisers $18.5m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... first round, the advice sector's levy amounts to $2.4 million - well above the other sectors' levy of $700,000 for credit providers, $800,000 for credit intermediation, and $900,000 for securities dealing. The government will pay for the first ...

GQG builds private markets unit on PAC stakes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024
... Partners, and Cordillera Investment Partners. It was only in 2023 that PAC acquired stakes of 24.9% in Avante, a private credit and structured equity investment management firm, and 16.4% in Cordillera, a private equity manager. In 2019, PAC bought a ...
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